Strategy 3: Provide opportunities to use new vocabulary in a variety of situations.

Identify key vocabulary relevant to student across environments (home, school, community).
Identify key vocabulary utilized across the curriculum (reading, math, science, social studies, etc.).
Provide opportunities to embed vocabulary in daily routines and naturally occurring situations.
Provide hands-on experiences with new vocabulary in real environments.
Make vocabulary available and accessible to student throughout all environments.
Provide multisensory experiences for identified vocabulary: taste, smell, tactile, visual and auditory.
Use word sorts to compare and contrast vocabulary.
Utilize thematic units to reinforce vocabulary and expand concept acquisition.
Provide repeated exposure to identified vocabulary words.
Keep a journal of learned vocabulary for the student to reference and for the teacher to plan for further vocabulary expansion.
Write experience stories with student to reinforce vocabulary learning.
Systematically review words previously taught.

Are all service providers utilizing the same strategies for teaching/incorporating vocabulary?
Are you sharing vocabulary with other teachers, paraprofessionals, related service providers and home?
Are you providing students who are visually impaired with a personal copy of vocabulary materials?
Are vocabulary words posted throughout the classroom in a variety of ways—bulletin boards, charts, flash cards, etc.? Does the student have the same access to vocabulary words in multiple formats?
Are you providing opportunities for the student to generalize new vocabulary?
If your student is using picture or tactile symbols, have you included text on all symbols?